Modifies a noun

• ration: For the lean ones, status quo implies impotence, exile, meager rations.

• existence: Veterans, and the widows of veterans, etch a meager existence on the pittance that the state throws at their feet.

• budget: For the most meager budget, a hand painted sign can be affixed to the trunk of the car spelling out the joyous news.

• income: The farmers are reluctant to go to hospital mainly because their meager income and the medical cost are disproportionate.

• hand: One meager hand was thrust out, palm up, fingers curled in a tortured appeal for reason.

• amount: In fact the only downside to the whole disk is the meager amount of extras on offer.

Modifying Another Word

• very: That is, the historical evidence to answer the kinds of questions that we pose to Scripture is often very meager.

• rather: Even their contact was rather meager at the time of our study, however.

• pretty: I mean offering only three large chips is pretty meager in my opinion.

• extremely: All of them are, for a long period, extremely meager and scanty.